Sindhu, Prannoy enter Swiss Open final

Double Olympic medallist P V Sindhu and HS Prannoy dished out scintillating performances to make their way to the women’s and men’s singles finals respectively at the Swiss Open Super 300 badminton tournament on Saturday.

World No. 7 Sindhu prevailed 21-18 15-21 21-19 over Thailand’s Supanida Katethong in a 79-minute women’s singles semifinal to make her second successive final after Prannoy eked out a hard-fought 21-19 19-21 21-18 win over Indonesia’s world number 5 Anthony Sinisuka Ginting for his first summit clash in five years.

Sindhu, seeded second, will face another Thai player and fourth seed Busanan Ongbamrungphan in the summit clash on Sunday, while Prannoy, who had last won the US Open in 2017, will take on either compatriot Kidambi Srikanth or Indonesia’s Jonatan Christie in the men’s singles final, also on Sunday.